The Artificial Intelligence Center is an interdepartmental research and instructional center within the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Georgia. Strengths include logic programming, expert systems, neural nets, genetic algorithms, natural language processing, and computational psycholinguistics.
At the upper-division level, all majors take certain required courses (including Introduction to Cognitive Science) and then courses in at least two of four concentration areas (Artificial Intelligence Foundations; Philosophical Foundations; Psychological Foundations; and Language and Culture). The doctoral degree in AI consists of roughly four years of course work in the background and major research areas of AI. Research skills are further developed through an original dissertation. In addition, students have the flexibility to learn about other topics of interest at UGA.
Evette Dunbar evette.dunbar@uga.edu Boyd GSRC, Room 516 706-542-0358
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To enter the Doctor of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence, you must apply online through the UGA Graduate School web page. There is an application fee, which must be paid at the time the application is submitted. There are several items which must be included in the application: - Standardized test scores, including the GRE - 3 letters of recommendation, preferably from university faculty and/or professional supervisors. We encourage you to submit the letters to the graduate school online as you complete the application process. - A sample of scholarly writing, in English. This can be anything you've written but should give an accurate indication of your writing abilities. The writing sample can be a term paper, research report, journal article, published paper, college paper, etc. - A completed Application for Graduate Assistantship, if you are interested in receiving funding - A Statement of Purpose - A Resume or Curriculum Vitae
The following courses must be completed unless specifically waived for students entering the program with a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence or a related field, or for students with substantially related graduate course work. All waived credits may be replaced by an equal number of doctoral research or doctoral dissertation credits (ARTI 9000, Doctoral Research or ARTI 9300, Doctoral Dissertation). Substitutions must be approved for a particular student by that student's Advisory Committee and by the Graduate Coordinator.
| ARTI(PHIL) 4340/6340 | Ethics and Artificial Intelligence | 3 |
| ARTI 6950 | Faculty Research Seminar | 1 |
| CSCI 4380/6380 | Data Mining | 4 |
| CSCI(ARTI) 4550/6550 | Artificial Intelligence | 3 |
| PHIL(LING) 4510/6510 | Deductive Systems | 3 |
A least 6 courses must be taken from Groups A and Group B below, subject to the following requirements: - At least 2 courses must be taken from Group A, from at least 2 areas - At least 2 courses must be taken from Group B, from at least 2 areas - At least 3 courses must be taken from a single area comprising the student’s chosen area of emphasis
| CSCI 4560/6560 | Evolutionary Computation and Its Applications | 4 |
| CSCI 8050 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 4 |
| CSCI(PHIL) 8650 | Logic and Logic Programming | 4 |
| CSCI 8920 | Decision Making Under Uncertainty | 4 |
| CSCI(ENGR) 8940 | Computational Intelligence | 4 |
| CSCI(ARTI) 8950 | Machine Learning | 4 |
| CSCI 4360/6360 | Data Science and Applied Machine Learning II | 4 |
| CSCI 8360 | Data Science Practicum | 4 |
| CSCI 8945 | Advanced Representation Learning | 4 |
| CSCI(ARTI) 8950 | Machine Learning | 4 |
| CSCI 8955 | Advanced Data Analytics: Statistical Learning and Optimization | 4 |
| CSCI 8960 | Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis | 4 |
| CSCI(ARTI) 4530/6530 | Introduction to Robotics | 4 |
| CSCI 4800/6800 | Human-Computer Interaction | 4 |
| CSCI 4850/6850 | Biomedical Image Analysis | 4 |
| CSCI 8530 | Advanced Topics in Robotics | 4 |
| CSCI 8535 | Multi-Robot Systems | 4 |
| CSCI 8820 | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | 4 |
| CSCI 8850 | Advanced Biomedical Image Analysis | 4 |
| CSCI 4860/6860 | Computational Neuroscience | 4 |
| PHIL(LING) 4300/6300 | Philosophy of Language | 3 |
| PHIL 4310/6310 | Philosophy of Mind | 3 |
| PHIL(LING) 4520/6520 | Model Theory | 3 |
| PHIL 8310 | Seminar in the Philosophy of Mind | 3 |
| PHIL 8500 | Seminar in Problems of Logic | 3 |
| PHIL 8600 | Seminar in Metaphysics | 3 |
| PHIL 8610 | Seminar in Epistemology | 3 |
| PSYC 6100 | Cognitive Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 8240 | Judgment and Decision-Making | 3 |
| ENGL(LING) 6885 | Introduction to Humanities Computing | 3 |
| LING 4570/6570 | Natural Language Processing | 3 |
| LING(ENGL) 6080 | Language and Complex Systems | 3 |
| LING 8021 | Phonetics and Phonology | 3 |
| LING 8150 | Generative Syntax | 3 |
| LING 8580 | Seminar in Computational Linguistics | 3 |
| PHIL(LING) 4300/6300 | Philosophy of Language | 3 |
| ELEE 4280/6280 | Introduction to Robotics Engineering | 3 |
| ENGL(LING) 6826 | Style: Language, Genre, Cognition | 3 |
| ENGL(LING) 6885 | Introduction to Humanities Computing | 3 |
| FORS 8450 | Advanced Forest Planning | 3 |
| INFO 8000 | Foundations of Informatics for Research and Practice | 3 |
| MIST 7770 | Business Intelligence and Analytics | 3 |
Note: Since not all courses have the same number of credit hours, Ph.D. students may need to take additional graduate courses to complete the required 40 hours.
Students may under special circumstances use up to 6 hours from the following list to apply towards the Electives group requirement.
| ARTI 8000 | Topics in Artificial Intelligence | 3 |
| ARTI 8800 | Directed Readings in Artificial Intelligence | 1-5 |
| GRSC 7001 | GradFIRST: First-year Research and Scholarship Training Seminar | 1 |
The Program of Study must include a minimum of 40 hours of graduate course work and a minimum of 6 hours of dissertation credit. Of the 40 hours of graduate course work, at least 20 hours must be 8000-level or 9000-level hours. Select additional courses, as needed, in consultation with an advisor to meet the minimum number of required credit hours for this program.